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Research and Public History Annual Report 2022–2023
The Science Museum Group supports a thriving programme of research which aims to promote new ways of understanding our collections, audiences and exhibitions. Each academic year a research report is published capturing that research year’s activity. This Research and Public History Annual Report covers the academic year 2022–2023. -
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The Congruence Engine Manifesto
Butterworth, Alex
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Journal article
History of textiles and the Congruence Engine
This essay briefly surveys the rich benefits a project like the Congruence Engine offers to national textile collections. Digital technology provides the means to bring dispersed material, written and oral collections together into one space. However, it also has limitations, and the following will also touch upon these. We finish...Ashworth, William J
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Journal article
Connecting places and collections
In aspiring to investigate diverse industrial and technological collections the Congruence Engine project highlights the fragmentation and loss of knowledge that often occurs when an industry or an individual workplace closes, or when a technology becomes obsolescent or redundant. Until relatively recently (often due to narrow institutional responsibilities and collecting...Cocroft, Wayne ; Russell, Ben
energy, photography, Congruence Engine, environment, digital collections, and film
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Origins and ambitions of the Congruence Engine project
The Congruence Engine project arises from museum practice, especially that of the Science Museum; its origins are in the character of curatorial work and also in the frustrations that often arise when seeking to democratise access to the extraordinary cultural capital that sits unrealised in collections, especially reserve collections. It...Boon, Tim
public history, Congruence Engine, digital collections, curation, and research
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History of communications and the Congruence Engine: early thoughts and possibilities
Communications is one of three strands of research under the Congruence Engine project, and will follow the other two, Textiles and Energy, in trialling the application of digital methods to better connect and understand collections held in partner institutions. This paper begins with a discussion of definitions of ‘communications’ and...Agar, Jon
technology, digital collections, communication, research, and Congruence Engine
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Journal article
Connecting with industrial heritage collections using video production methods: Greg Kotovs and the can-gill machine
This article consists of one short video and accompanying reflective documentation. The video focuses on museum volunteer Greg Kotovs and his operation of a can-gill machine at the Bradford Industrial Museum. It attempts to acknowledge the historical worker’s embodied expertise, and a certain epistemology associated with the knowledge of the...Craddock, Paul
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Journal article
Collaborative conversation as a method for exploring multiple perspectives on 'community' and forms of knowledge in the Congruence Engine
Popple, Simon ; Lacedelli, Stefania Zardini ; Rees, Arran J ; Prior, Stuart ; Smith, Maggie
digital collections, public history, public engagement, and Congruence Engine